CVE-2020-35938 (GCVE-0-2020-35938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-01 01:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:16
VLAI
Summary
PHP Object injection vulnerabilities in the Post Grid plugin before 2.0.73 for WordPress allow remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary PHP objects due to insecure unserialization of data supplied in a remotely hosted crafted payload in the source parameter via AJAX. The action must be set to post_grid_import_xml_layouts.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AC:H/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2341 records in the last 180 days details
References
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